London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, and J. Battley in Pater-Noster Row, J. Pemberton in Fleetstreet, and E. Curll in the Strand, 1721. Second Edition. 8vo, [4],x, [5, dedication], [2, engraved plate], 1-235, [blank leaf]; full contemporary diced Russia gilt, a.e.g. With two engraved portraits of Pope tipped in at the..... More

New York: Film Culture, Fall 1963. 4to, unpag; stapled in textured cardboard wrappers with printed wraparound label. Among the more desirable issues in the long run of Film Culture's existence, this issue was devoted to the pre-eminent experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage with his essay "Metaphors on Vision" making up nearly..... More

Tokyo: Association for the Diffusion of Japanese films Abroad, Inc., 1959. 8vo, 42pp; printed wrappers. Illustrated catalogue of films, with news and announcements touching on feature films, documentaries, industrial films, and shorts. Feature films described include works by Kunio Watanabe, Manao Horiuchi, Noboru Nakamura, Eizo Sugawa, Noriyuki Itaya, Toshio Sugie..... More

Berlin: 1927. Approx. 4 X 6-inch card with a nice painting of the Hotel by Richard Friese on the front; on the signature side, a small clipping has been neatly pasted on the area where the address and stamp would have been placed, above the two signatures. The Hotel Adlon..... More

No place: Tall Tree Press, 2006. First (separate) edition. Broadside, approx. 8-1/2 X 14 in. on deckle-edged rag paper. One of fifty numbered copies signed by Simic, the entire edition. The poem had appeared in The New Yorker prior to this letterpress publication. More

Minneapolis: Red Egypt Press, 1944. First Edition. 4to, sewn into spineless gray cloth covers; in original cloth drop-spine box. Edition limited to twenty numbered copies and three artist's proofs, comprising nine poems by Edson with nine three-color intaglio etchings by Rathman. This is the first of the artist's proofs, numbered..... More

Berlin: Union Verlag, (1963). First East German edition. Small 8vo, 92pp; white linen stamped in blue. Nicely inscribed on the front flyleaf: "Für Christopher Middleton mit herzlichen Wünschen, Johannes Bobrowski , am Tag seines* [*ersten] Besuches in Friesdrichshagen." A nice copy of Bobrowski's second substantial collection. More

N.P. N.p., n.d. (ca. 1968). Bifolium, approx. 6-1/2 X 8-1/2 in., printed on all sides. The beloved author and illustrator of Harold and the Purple Crayon and other classic books for children devoted his last years to making exacting mathematic paintings, most of which are in the collection of the..... More

New York & Penland: The Jargon Society, 1969. First Edition. Narrow 8vo, unapg. pamphlet in wrappers, saddle-stitched. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by both Johnson and Davenport, this being number 250; it was printed on Fabriano and Cockerell paper with a central insert of French marbled paper. The..... More

Brooklyn: Assembling Press, 1967. 4to, unpag; staple-bound and glued into printed glossy wrappers. As with other iterations of this irregularly issued anthology, contributors were invited to submit up to 4 pages for an edition of 1000. As long as it could fit into the 8-1/2 X 11 inch format, no..... More

New York: Harper & Row, (1971). First American edition. 8vo, 56pp; cloth. Atwood's fifth collection of poems. More

New York: The Floating Bear, 1961-1968. 29 separate numbers of this mimeographed publication, varying pagination; each item 8-1/2 X 11 in., stapled, as issued, and folded for mailing. A substantial run of one of the most consequential and elusive periodicals of the later Beat era. Floating Bear was founded by..... More

London: Printed for C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, et al, 1781. First London edition thus titled. Four vols., 8vos, fronstispiece, vii, 480; iii, 471; [ii], 462; [ii], 505; contemporary tree calf with gilt spines and red leather labels. The frontispiece portrait of Johnson, engraved by Thomas Trotter after Joshua..... More